Women in domestic interiors and protected gardens formed the subject of Denis' portfolio of 12 colour lithographs entitled Love. The female associations with the interior illustrated in Our Souls, in
Small gestures are underlined by the wavy lampshade, roses and arabesques on the piano shawl. Throughout the 19th century, women played music at home, with few exceptions. Within these limits, their performance was relegated to that of the amateur, performing for friends but not for money or public acclaim.
Here two figures sit at a table and are engaged in music.
Maurice Denis (Granville, 25 November 1870 - Paris, 13 November 1943) was a French painter. He was one of the founders of the group Les Nabis. Within formalism Denis' statement is often quoted: 'Consider that a painting, before it is a warhorse, a female nude or a genre scene, is first of all a flat surface with colours in a certain order.
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